Phil "Lumestackin" Hellmuth Bows Out of Tournament in 11th Place

Published on July 2nd, 2020 2:59 pm EST

The first WSOP.com bracelet event of the year provided fans with some excitement, as Phil Hellmuth made a deep run in the event.

For a while, Hellmuth appeared poised to make a run at his 16th World Series of Poker bracelet.

As he played from his suite at the ARIA, Hellmuth took a chip lead late in the tournament, only to watch things fall apart in rapid fashion.

In the end, Hellmuth ended up bowing out in 11th place, collecting $7,872 for his troubles.

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As mentioned, things fell apart quickly for Hellmuth, as he went from chip leader to out of the tournament in just 45 minutes. This included running pocket Queens into pocket Kings, Ad-Qd into A-K and then this crippling hand:

Lost a 4 Million chip flip, for chip lead in @WSOP #1, the guy that called it off musta felt sick (he took forever to call it off w A-K) to call off 1.8 Million knowing that best case is tie. Knowing it was me that moved in! He opened 200k, I moved in 2M w QQ w 13 players left

— phil_hellmuth (@phil_hellmuth) July 2, 2020

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The first WSOP.com bracelet event of the year was only open to people playing in either Nevada or New Jersey.

The $500 buy-in event ended up attracting a total of 1,715 entries (1,195 unique players), which created a total prize pool of $771,750.

The tournament was eventually won by Jonathan "Art.Vandelay" Dokler, who took down the event for $130,425.75.


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